Digital Theater Systems (DTS) has completed its certification process and notified Yamaha of its approval of Yamaha’s XG-Movie 5.1 Digital Surround Card. The Yamaha XG-Movie 5.1, targeted at PC enthusiasts and game users, includes Yamaha’s YMF744 and [...]
A&E Home Video just sent us some information about a number of DVD titles, slated for release in January. Get ready to rumble, when on January 25, The Unreal Story Of Pro Wrestling is entering the ring. It is a bone-crunching documentary with raw [...]
Japanese DVD manufacturers were forced to postpone the launch of long-awaited new audio equipment after a European hacker broke open the copyright protection of DVDs and raised new piracy fears. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co postponed the launch of [...]
As we had reported last week, Warner Home Video had planned a Tarantula race on Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard to celebrate the home video release of Wild Wild West. Well, it happened, and you can see the invasion of the live eight-legged furry spiders, [...]
Four weeks before the all-important Christmas holiday shopping season, Thanksgiving shoppers spiked DVD software sales as they snapped up movies and music videos over the celebratory weekend. Total DVD software sales for the week ended November 28, 1999, [...]
James Kobayashi, President of Pioneer Entertainment, announced today that the company has signed an output agreement with Regent Entertainment to distribute Regent’s films on home video. The deal commences with Regent’s “Free Enterprise,” the [...]
We have been able to take a first look at the upcoming release of Universal Home Video’s DVD version of the classic Dracula. As we had hoped, the disc is a gem for all “Dracula” fans, containing a number of truly exciting special features. The disc [...]
New Line Home Video just announced the day and date release of their spine-chilling thriller The Astronaut’s Wife on February 8. Starring Johnny Depp, “The Astronaut’s Wife” is the story of the courageous NASA astronaut Spencer Armacost and his [...]
DVD Express today launched its first off-line catalog and a $3 million “DVD EXPRESSway to Paradise” sweepstakes to kick off the holiday season. Featuring the tagline “Take Hollywood Home for the Holidays, ” DVD Express is distributing more than 2 [...]
Online holiday sales of DVDs are setting new daily sales records at DVD Empire, the pioneering online retailer of DVD according to company president Jeff Rix. On Monday, November 29, the first business day following the Thanksgiving weekend, the online [...]
